Wickham Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Wickham Green Farmhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-marble-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wickham Green Farmhouse, Welford
OS grid reference
SU 397 718
Coordinates
51.44419, -1.42894
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wickham Green Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It was enlarged and largely rebuilt in the early to mid-19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond with grey headers and features a plain tile roof and brick stacks topped with clay pots. The building has two storeys, a cellar, and four bays, with the main structure encased in brick and an added rear range. There are 20th-century outshut additions to the right bay and right return.

The openings of the farmhouse have segmental brick arches, and the windows are fitted with small-pane casements. The gables are adorned with cusped barge boards and pendants. On the entrance elevation, the left bay is gabled. The second bay features a four-panel door set in a gabled porch with slatted sides, while a board door to the fourth bay is concealed by the 20th-century outshut, which includes a door and flanking windows that match the style of the house. Between the doors, there is a two-light window, and to the left, a canted bay window with a dentilled sill and a polygonal roof. The first floor has windows arranged in groups of three, three, two, and two lights.

The ridge stack is located over the second bay and at the right end, though the pots have been removed. There is a single-flue stack on the left side. At the rear, the two left bays are covered by a catslide roof and feature a three-light window and a board door beneath a bracketed pent porch on the right bay, along with a two-light window on the left and gabled two-light eaves dormers. The right-hand bays are paired and gabled, with a three-light stair window in the left bay and a two-light window on each floor, including the cellar, in the right bay.

Inside, timber-framing members from the older, lower building can still be seen in the right-hand bay, particularly on the first floor. Between the left-hand bays, there are back-to-back brick fireplaces with curved inner corners; the smaller left-hand fireplace has a wooden surround, while the larger right-hand fireplace features a wooden bressumer. Surviving features from the 19th century include panelled doors, cupboards, shutters (for the bay window), floorboards, and a staircase with closed string stick balusters and columnar newels. The 20th-century outshut at the right end contains an old three-light iron casement window with leading and decorative catches.

Local climate

Wickham Green Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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